Tag: participation

A Learning Network for Berlin

There’s a **long road ahead to bring Europe’s “start-up darling” Berlin up to par with learning & and the web.** Digital literacy and simple computational competencies are often lacking; and there’s no indication yet that Berlin schools will step to fill the gap.* There’s an…

Democratic Transport

>A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car. — [Enrique Peñalosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Pe%C3%B1alosa), former Mayor of Bogata [Urbanized](http://urbanizedfilm.com/) is a documentary by Gary Hustwit about the future of designing cities. A…

Why do you participate?

Prompted by a filmmaker’s uninspiring suggestion to “crowdsource” footage, we had a good round of spontaneous chatter at ODC about: what motivates you to participate? Given how participation is now the metric driving all Mozilla Foundation projects, the topic of motiviation certainly deserves some reflection.…

What makes a great event?

Thanks to @cyberdees for pointing out this Quora thread. Some really valuable insights from Robert Scoble on what make a great event and food for thought re: Mozilla Festival and other events in the pipeline. We’ll unpack this at OKCon and Wikimania Haifa. Scoble: The…